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  • Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. -- Socrates
  • Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. -- Horace Mann
  • True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge. -- Confucius
  • One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment. -- Charlie Trotter
  • To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
  • All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision. -- Maria Monk
  • All true knowledge contradicts common sense. -- Mandell Creighton
  • True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance -- David Mitchell
  • True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does. -- Hugh Nibley
  • To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. -- Confucius
  • True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become. -- Sri Aurobindo
  • This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples. -- Reks
  • True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. -- Socrates
  • I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men. -- George Whitefield
  • Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge. -- Ramakrishna
  • The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of who God is. The second most important belief is who we are as children of God, because we cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with how we perceive ourselves. -- Neil T Anderson
  • All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be. -- Joseph Campbell
  • [God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • True knowledge lies in knowing how to live. -- Baltasar Gracian
  • A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. -- Hale White
  • Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. -- David Hume
  • Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever. -- Dorothea Dix
  • To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. -- Socrates
  • Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true. -- Ralph Cudworth
  • If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you. -- Ramakrishna
  • The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect. -- Annie Besant
  • Knowledge is true opinion. -- Plato
  • True knowledge comes only through suffering. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Understanding is the key to true knowledge -- Liam Williams
  • The true method of knowledge is experiment. -- William Blake
  • The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge. -- J. C. Ryle
  • True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge. -- John Taylor Gatto
  • Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility. -- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
  • The door of true knowledge will opento the light -- Eleazar
  • True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • True knowledge of God is born out of obedience. -- John Calvin
  • All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience. -- John Calvin
  • Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge. -- Laurence Sterne
  • True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self. -- Immortal Technique
  • The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. -- Albert Einstein
  • True knowledge is found only among those genuinely worshiping God. -- John Cassian
  • Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love. -- William Wordsworth
  • True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge. -- Confucius
  • Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge. -- K. Pattabhi Jois
  • True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge. -- Socrates
  • Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power. -- Sathya Sai Baba
  • A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness. -- John Eldredge
  • True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self. -- John Calvin
  • That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature. -- Blaise Pascal
  • True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings. -- Albert Einstein
  • The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water. -- Viktor Schauberger
  • The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. -- James Madison
  • Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself. -- Alan Watts
  • No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety. -- Jonathan Edwards
  • There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it. -- Franz Kafka
  • A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready. -- Georges St-Pierre
  • True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. -- Karl Popper
  • The true color of intelligence is not in knowledge but in the wisdom of actions. -- Debasish Mridha
  • Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge. -- Elie Wiesel
  • Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge. -- Auguste Comte
  • The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer. -- John Calvin
  • Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. -- Martin Luther
  • Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there. -- Dean Koontz
  • The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things. -- Daniel H. Wilson
  • True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience. -- J. C. Ryle
  • Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge. -- Sigmund Freud
  • Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. -- William Hazlitt
  • The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. -- Sir Fulke Greville
  • True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are. -- Isaiah Berlin
  • Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die. -- Sivananda
  • In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power. -- John F. Kennedy
  • Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
  • If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible. -- Matt Chandler
  • It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. -- Okakura Kakuz?
  • It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. -- Okakura Kakuz?
  • The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works. -- L. Ron Hubbard
  • True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love. -- Robert Grudin
  • Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. -- John Calvin
  • Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge. -- Ramakrishna
  • That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge. -- Ramakrishna
  • I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. -- Thomas Malthus
  • Knowledge of constitution is the key for a holistic and integral health care, the true basis of any preventative medicine. -- Vasant Lad
  • All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true. -- David A. Bednar
  • What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? -- Lucretius
  • You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe. -- Boethius
  • Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. -- Erwin Knoll
  • No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other. -- Sai Baba
  • Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health. -- Laozi
  • True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise. -- Frederick Lenz
  • Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell. -- Elijah Muhammad
  • Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter -- Johann Georg Hamann
  • Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
  • I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth. -- William Shatner
  • Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them. -- Nicholas of Cusa
  • True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. -- Helen Keller
  • True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge -- Félix J. Palma
  • Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character. -- David O. McKay
  • A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. -- Matt Ridley
  • That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ. -- Queen Victoria
  • Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way. -- Sebastian Coe
  • Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. -- G. M. Trevelyan
  • A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities. -- John Owen
  • Personally, I have been enriched by my experiences in Egypt and America, and feel fortunate to have been endowed with a true passion for knowledge. -- Ahmed Zewail
  • Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. -- John Calvin
  • Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge. -- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
  • Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy. -- Jay Griffiths
  • Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God. -- Marcus Eremita
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